Improvement in railroad-rail joints



JAMES ADAMS, on NEWARK, DELAWARE Specification forming part of Letters Patent Nol33,818, dated December 10, 1872.

State of Delaware, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rai road-Splice; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a railroad splice, as will be hereinafter more fully set fOItha I y In order to enableothers skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and plates being secured by means of bolts a a.

The outer fish-plate D is constructed, as shown I particularly in Fig. 2, in the shape of an ordinary T-rail, the head on one side being reduced. and made concave, so as to fiton the side of the head of the rails A A, its upper side being level with the top of said rails, 7 thus forming an auxiliary rail, which breaks IMPROVEMENT IN RAILROAD-RAIL JOINT S.'

the joint and prevents the ends of the rails A A from becoming battered. The foot of the fish-plate D extends up to the side of the rail, and above the same, on the inner side of the fish-plate, is a longitudinal rib, d, which also bears against the sides of the rails, forming, with the lower rib or foot, a longitudinal groove, I), through which the bolts to a pass.

By this construction of the fish-plate D it is made lighter and still as strong as if made solid. The ribs bearing against the sides of s the rails prevent any springing of the fishplate. The outer bolt a at each end of the fish-plate passes through the end of a rod, G, placed in the groove 11, and the other end of the rod secured to the tie B. These rods G G, thus connecting the rails and splice with the ties, prevent the rails from running, which they cannot do .without carrying the ties with them. I

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- i The combination of the rails A A, fish-piece O and fish-piece'D, constructed as described, bolts a a,jand the rods G Gr, connected to the bolts within the groove 7), and tothc ties B B, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I .have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of October, 1872. 7

JAMES ADAMS.

Witnesses:

WM. MoKEowAN, A. J. LILLEY.. 

